Short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors
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** The lie that bought Jacob Weisen a new life cannot help him escape the past
Birkenau could not kill Jacob Weisen. He survived the death camp and made his way to America, where he became famous telling the story of Isaac Becker, an author who was tortured to death when the guards caught him writing down his story. Beckerโs manuscript was lost, but by telling the tale, Weisen keeps his memory alive. No other witnesses survivedโand Weisen is the only person who knows his famous story is a lie.
In fact, Weisen was a collaborator, who led his countrymen to the ovens and gave Becker up to the SS. Decades after the war, as his lies begin to unravel, he must choose between admitting the truth and dying in a hell of his own creation.
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Review
โOne of the more original voices to emerge from the crime fiction field in the last ten years.โ โGeorge Pelecanos
โReed Farrel Coleman makes claim to a unique corner of the private detective genre.โ โMichael Connelly
โOne of the most daring writers around. . . . He writes the books we all aspire to.โ โKen Bruen
About the Author
Reed Farrel Coleman (b. 1956) is a mystery author best known for creating the Moe Prager series. Under his own name and the pen name Tony Spinosa, he has published fourteen novels, beginning with Life Goes Sleeping(1991), which introduced the three-volume Dylan Klein series. In 2001, Coleman published Walking the Perfect Square , a gritty story about Moe Prager, a retired New York cop who becomes embroiled in the hunt for a missing college student. Since then, he has written six more novels starring Prager, most recently Hurt Machine(2011).
Coleman has won three Shamus awards in the best detective novel category, and has been nominated twice for Edgar awards. His short fiction has been published widely, most recently in the collection Long Island Noir(2012). Coleman lives with his family on Long Island, where he teaches writing classes at Hofstra University.